Dune: Part Two will extend its run in IMAX — Grains of sand as big as your head!

Dune: Part Two, which has been in theaters for over a month now, is the kind of movie shot to look as impressive as possible on a big screen. That moment where desert messiah Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) kisses Fremen warrior Chani (Zendaya) and the camera swings around them to show the vast, beautiful expanse of rolling dunes behind them? When I tell you I gasped in the theater, I tell you true. This movie is so pretty.

Other people agree, because a lot of them have been seeing Dune: Part Two in IMAX, which are the biggest screens around. Of the movie's $665 million haul at the box office, $139 million has come from IMAX screenings, according to Collider. Now, Dune: Part Two will stay on IMAX screens through Friday, April 19, longer than originally intended. So if you haven't had the pleasure of seeing the movie on a screen so big you can go swimming in Chalamet's eyes, you have another chance.

Dune: Part Two is reportedly the seventh highest grossing IMAX movie of all time now. Although finding all six movies ahead of it is tricky, Avatar: The Way of Water grossed $255 million from IMAX — the most of any film yet released — while last year's Oppenheimer took in $188 million IMAX bucks. People like super-big screens, especially when the movies are formatted to fit them.

Dune director Denis Villeneuve sees opportunity there. “I strongly believe that the future of cinema is linked with IMAX,” he told Variety. “It just conveys a level of quality.” That makes sense to me. In an age where home entertainment setups are getting more elaborate, IMAX offers movies a way to lure people out to the theater, because I don't care how huge the TV in your living room is, it's not going to be that big.

But to take proper advantage of the IMAX screens, filmmakers have to shoot movies with that format in mind. Some studios have been accused of shooting films designed to be as digestible on the small screen as on the big, with the idea being that they'll get more eyeballs on them that way; Marvel Studios has sometimes come in for this criticism. I think there's room for that, but I also like that folks like Villeneuve are out here directing for the back of the room. There should be space for movies that truly are better experiences at the theater. It makes those movies feel more like events.

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